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The1Russter

McG admits mistakes with Terminator Salvation (page: 1 2)

Oct 20 2011, 12:06 PM EDT by I.Join

Thread started: Oct 13 2011, 5:06 PM EDT Watch

In a report on www.totalfilm.com McG said, “I feel like we did a lot right with Terminator and I feel like we did a lot wrong,”

He also said, “We did the best we could. I poured everything I had into that picture. Yeah, there's some outstanding footage out there and we'll see if there's a director's release to come in the future. You never know. Time will tell.”

Will that mean a new director's cut in the future? Heaven forbid, but could it be any worse than what we got on Blue-Ray? Who's to say. Studio's will do everything they can to milk the franchise for more money and you can be sure if there is a new director's cut, it will be found in stores when T5 is in theater's.

You can read the full, though brief, interview here: http://www.totalfilm.com/news/mcg-admits-terminator-salvation-mistakes

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Terminator Salvation: Cold War

Oct 13 2011, 5:13 PM EDT by The1Russter

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Article: 10 Ways to Save the Terminator Franchise

Feb 26 2011, 11:05 AM EST by I.Join

Thread started: Feb 24 2011, 6:34 PM EST Watch

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/784740/10_ways_to_save_the_terminator_franchise.html

#8... definitely

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RE: Article: 10 Ways to Save the Terminator Franchise
By: I.Join, Feb 26 2011, 11:05 AM EST

"To be honest, I believe that Pacificor is a crowd of Terminator lovers from Future, who want to freeze any Terminator movie/show new release, until one great nation from North America give a break about the emo-tards and crazy women who save the world, and go back to great notions that even created this proud nation.

Then, I have no problem to wait 20 years, to see a realistically Sarah Connor and a true John Connor. I'm not so old. ;)

You believe that I'm crazy? :D

Imagine something like Terminator vs. Good Vampire. Thanks God, I believe that is not quite possible this thing now... I'm wait.

Still, I admit that an fight between one Arnhuld and this guy will be interesting
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"Versus" movies never attracted me, they sounds like "we want people who know at least one kind to buy the ticket "...
Anyway you could like this, meantime :P

If Pacificor wanted a good movie they did what was also economically good: to produce it! They bought the rights and, by now, they only wasted money: they could have invested some other money to make money, which is their business, (to produce a good movie), choosing the director and the plot form a range of proposal they could have had...

Anyway there's no battle between Terminators and a vampires: the first don't sleep, the second sleep too much (and all together, despite humans!): too easy to kill them all while sleeping... in "Brother of Nabulus" story style!

EDIT: Oh, about emo-tards and so on, I ever thought that in TSCC all humans have been intentionally made a bit "tard" and crazy, because, as someone wrote in another thread, Terminator fans (and I add story!) are a bit "misanthropic", and I figure that the intention was actually that!

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LiquidMetal

Terminator Franchise to be Auctioned Off (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page)

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Jun 10 2010, 4:53 PM EDT by SurfingEagle

Thread started: Nov 1 2009, 8:46 PM EST Watch

The rights to the Terminator film franchise will be auctioned this month in a deal that will test Hollywood intellectual property valuations at a time when film industry profits are under pressure from falling DVD sales.

The sale, which comes weeks after the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were sold for $60m – and is likely to exceed that – has sparked considerable interest because Terminator is a rare example of a blockbuster film franchise not controlled by a big studio.

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RE: Terminator Franchise to be Auctioned Off
By: SurfingEagle, Jun 10 2010, 4:53 PM EDT

@RDO very interesting idea. Worthy of consideration. The reason I say that is that T1 was based a lot on the fears of technology and nuclear war in the 80's. RDO and myself surely both remember this clearly enough. I have the original T1 on DVD as presented in the theaters at that time along with some of the original promos. Technology back then was just emerging. Most people didn't even have a computer and those that did where isolated little hobbyists. Most people were afraid of computers because they didn't understand them. I recall one of the T1 promos talk up how machines were intruding into our lives. It was filled with images of manufacturing robots doing tasks that used to be performed by people. Back then, many people still worked all those manufacturing jobs that were getting replaced by robots. There was this real fear that technology was taking everything over and changing things, putting the whole world in jeopardy from nuclear attack. No movie better hit on this fear, in the same time frame, than War Games, the hacker's mantra. T1 reverberated a similar appeal. Listen to me, I sound like some grandpa over here. Hey, I'm not that old.

My point is that times have changed. Computers are far more integrated into people's lives today. Things have changed. It's more about how technology can be used to assist us today. I can see integrating that spirit of cooperation into the T-verse on a limited basis. That being said, I still, however, agree with @SB on the direction. Fundamentally, T1 was protagonist vs. antagonist, good vs. evil. It's about the ongoing never ending battle between the two. We eat that **** up like it was manna since before Mesopotamia. So, what I'm saying is that an epic battle was started. There can be only one. It needs to come down to the final showdown at high noon. Somebody has to win. Somebody has to lose. Is the guy in the white hat gonna win or the guy in the black hat?

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CaptainPower

New Terminator Podcast

Apr 21 2010, 6:17 PM EDT by CaptainPower

Huntterr

Süper bir dizi

Mar 21 2010, 2:32 PM EDT by Huntterr

Wild-Kat

Post Your Terminator Salvation Reviews Here (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page)

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Feb 2 2010, 12:25 PM EST by FrenchFanofTSCC

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Lion's Gate is "stalking horse" bid for T franchise

Jan 15 2010, 9:12 PM EST by reneeccski

Iranatest

Interconnection between TSCC and Terminator 4

Jan 3 2010, 10:46 PM EST by termi-ninja-tor

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Dec 21 2009, 11:03 PM EST by blueyes45

45longslide

Terminator Salvation DVD News (page: 1 2 3 4)

Dec 12 2009, 1:34 AM EST by locdasmoke

Thread started: Sep 29 2009, 4:54 PM EDT Watch

I found this article today. A stub was posted on IMDB.com

It seems like the film will get the Deluxe treatment in the Blue Ray format.

Retail disk case artwork is included at the article. It looks good.

http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2009/09/full-specs-at-box-art-for-the-terminator-salvation-dvd-and-blu-ray-release.php

Release date is 12/01/09. Version and SRP information is included at the link.

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Enter to for your chance to win a Terminator Salvation DVD!

Dec 4 2009, 12:03 PM EST by ninjawolf50

Thread started: Dec 2 2009, 6:27 PM EST Watch

Hey all, we've got awesome some DVDs to give away! 5 lucky winners will receive a Terminator Salvation DVD. To enter, all you have to do is submit your username/contact info and describe your favorite Terminator Salvation moment (if you have one). You can enter the sweepstakes here:

http://terminatorwiki.fox.com/page/Terminator+Salvation+DVD+Giveaway

A complete list of rules can be found here:

http://terminatorwiki.fox.com/page/Terminator+Salvation+DVD+Giveaway+Rules

Entries will be taken through December 12th, and the winners will be announced online December 14th. Best of luck!

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UK Fans Terminator Salvation out Monday 23rd November

Nov 21 2009, 7:11 PM EST by MMM.MIND

LiquidMetal

Halcyon Files for Bankruptcy! (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page)

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Nov 2 2009, 8:04 AM EST by horhai

roddy_white

Ot:Bill Murray REALLY hates McGoober

Oct 18 2009, 5:31 AM EDT by tscc1000

Cameron-TOK716

Are you getting ready for Terminator Salvation on DVD and Blu Ray? (page: 1 2)

Oct 9 2009, 8:56 AM EDT by meanoldmoe

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Arnold warns us of the future of Terminator

Oct 5 2009, 8:35 PM EDT by The_GodfatherSJP

The_GodfatherSJP

Re: Latest T4 numbers from Boxofficemojo (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page)

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Sep 17 2009, 5:23 PM EDT by The_GodfatherSJP

Thread started: Jun 17 2009, 1:20 PM EDT Watch

Link here: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?id=vs-terminator.htm

It looks like it won't surpass T3 either. T3 raked in 283 million in foreign numbers and 150 million in US, for 433 million total. As of 9/10/09, T4 is at 371.3 million and appears to have finished it's run in the US. After my last posting, it made 63.5k the following week from August 24-30, then made about 35.6k the rest of its run which ended on the 10th. It's grand total domestically 125.3 million dollars, about 25 million below T3.

As for foreign numbers, T4 is still sitting at 246.0 as of 8/23/09, up from 245.3 million the previous week. This is because of a late opening in Mexico, putting the new foreign estimate at 246-250 million. Unfortunately the latest update available is for the week of 8/23/09 and no update has occurred since. That puts the likely total gross from the film between 370-375 million, about 55-65 million below T3. It cost the same to produce, but as Tscchope kindly provided some budgeting data, it's not a flop for all parties involved. WB invested 60 million in the project and has US distribution and marketing, Sony invested 100 and has international distributing and marketing, Halcyon put up the rest.

Assuming Halcyon splits the grosses 50/50 with each partner, they receive 50 million from the US gross and about 96-98 million international gross, for a total of 146-148 million (profit about 105 million). They also receive money from any DVD sales. WB only gets 50 million from the gross, that puts them 50-60 million in the red after marketing, so they need very strong DVD sales to break even. Sony will get about 96-98 million as well putting them in the red by 2-4 million before marketing, with marketing they're in the red by 40-50 million.

Obviously Halcyon looks very good and the studios look bad.

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RE: Re: Latest T4 numbers from Boxofficemojo
By: The_GodfatherSJP, Sep 17 2009, 5:23 PM EDT

Okay, there hasn't been much of an update for T4 for the past few weeks. Numbers are mostly the same, except the movie made another 95k in the US before finishing its run.

The international numbers haven't been updated. So I went down the list of each individual country to see if T4 was still playing anywhere since. Mexico was almost certainly still showing the film, as it was still playing in 394 theaters on August 23rd, so going at the "it drops my 50% every week" estimate T4 has likely made about 200k more from that country.

As for the rest, it's finished its run in most of the other countries, according to Box Office Mojo. Looks like I'll have to revise the estimate for the international numbers as well. My guess is T4 will finish somewhere around 247 million total, around my previous estimate of 246-250 million. Definitely a little on the low end of what I predicted, but what the hell.

The grand total will probably be 372.5-373 million from the box office when all is said and done. Doesn't really change the math any. But Sony comes out alright and Halcyon makes a lot of money, as I said. WB, well, they're left holding the bag. I'm guessing that the "100 million in marketing" isn't actually a 50-50 split between Sony and WB, because it may be more expensive to market in the US than everywhere else, considering the merchandising, the parties, the gala balls and premieres, and other things exclusive to a US premiere vs. around the word. There's also the matter of the film being produced on WB's lot, which I know Halcyon paid them for, but there has to be other costs.

Thing is, I doubt we'll ever know the real marketing budget. Certainly would clear up the picture a lot, but no studio wants to look like an idiot if they broke the bank in the course of partying.

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Another T:Salvation novel is coming out.

Sep 3 2009, 2:10 PM EDT by Marcus_Wright

SurfingEagle

New IGN interview McG talks T5 and mentions TSCC impact (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page)

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Aug 24 2009, 2:06 AM EDT by aurum1

Thread started: Aug 8 2009, 5:24 PM EDT Watch

Here is the link to the article:
http://movies.ign.com/articles/101/1011868p1.html

This article was posted yesterday August 7, 2009

Here is the Q&A with McG regarding the TV Show:

Q: Do you think the TV show perhaps lessened the impact of having a new Terminator movie?

McG: That's one of those things that we realized looking over our shoulder. I believe that we can put enough separation into our film construct where the television show would be the television show and the film will be the film. But one could also argue that cannibalized Superman to some degree – with Smallville doing its thing. It's always witchcraft. It's guess work. It's dangerous. It was very difficult to follow in the footsteps of my hero, Jim Cameron. I did the best I could and I learned a great deal, and I'm certain that I'm a better storyteller now, having had that experience. And I think the next film is going to be very pleasing and very surprising to the fans. That's the goal.

McG's response is cryptic to me. He seems to be saying that they didn't fully consider the impact of the T.V. show in advance. It also seems like he is inferring that the movie and TV show should be separate but not too separate. Is this revealing something about the future of TSCC? Is he merely trying to blame the lackluster performance of the film on the existence of TSCC?

Topic: Is McG hinting at anything about the future of TSCC in his statement, or what is your opinion of the overall planned direction of T5 based on the information thus far, or what direction would you like to see T5 go?

Related Link: http://newfilmdimension.com/2009/05/08/summer-glau-might-be-in-a-future-terminator-film/

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